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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] TFTP .exrc sendmail binmail adduser
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 12:00:38 GMT
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In article <1lvcmgINN1r8@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) writes:
> .exrc : I fooled with this thing forever, trying to get it to set my tabstops.
> I know it is a security hole, but why not -just- read it from the home
> dir and not from CWD?  Was this disabled on purpose for security?

That sounds weird. Security-wise, I'd recommend doing things the other way
around. In any case, unless Elvis has problems with it, try setting EXINIT
to "so $HOME/.exrc".

Speaking of Elvis, how come you can't use any arbitrary delimiter on an
arbitrary sub or global?

> sendmail : I assume the debug hole is gone, but then again I assumed tftp
> would be fixed too, so maybe this is still here.

Unless you're actually on the Internet, I'd recommend you use my smail kit
on ref.tfs.com:~pds and dump sendmail. It's based on smail 2.5, and is small,
reasonably fast, and above all easy to understand. It works with a normal
UUCP paths file, and you can build that by hand or grab stock pathalias.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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